Depends, If you are a Christian, you believe that the world was created 6 thousand years ago, dinosaurs lived 5 thousand years ago, etc. In this case God and evolution are exclusive. If you are a Jew, you believe the same as the above, and God and evolution are exclusive. If you are a Muslim, you believe that the known universe was created 14 billion years ago with a Big Bang and you believe in evolution and you believe that there lived dinosaurs 200 million years ago on earth (just like scientists say). In this case God and evolution are not exclusive. If you are a voodoo believer, it probably doesn't matter for you. As you see, it all depends on your religion.
Your affection/dependence on strawman arguments while probably quite comfortable for you reveals to others a dysmorphic self esteem problem.
Man, chill out. It is you who stated that God and evolution are not exclusive. And I found the God who's teachings do not contradict evolution and whose followers believe both in evolution and in God and live in harmony with biologists, geologists, astronomers and others. In general you have two options: 1. continue to believe that evolution and God are not contradictory terms - in this case you should become a Muslim, or 2. discontinue to believe in evolution and become a true Christian or Jew or Voodoo or yet something else
Yeah, I'm gonna change my religion because some loser on the internet is befuddled and suffers from religious prejudice.
The large majority of Christians see no conflict be evolution and God. You atheists are picking on a small group of Christians who support a 17th century monks calculation as to the age of the earth. Most Christians are open to the ever changing views of science on the age of the universe and evolution. I note that "science's" views on the evolution is evolving as well. The Roman Catholic church has over a billion members. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church It is over half of all Christians. "Since the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859, the position of the Catholic Church on the theory of evolution has slowly been refined. For about 100 years, there was no authoritative pronouncement on the subject. In the 1950s, the Church's position was one of neutrality; by the late 20th century its position evolved to one of implicit acceptance. Today[update], the Church's official position is a fairly non-specific example of theistic evolution.[1][2], stating that faith and scientific findings regarding human evolution are not in conflict, though humans are regarded as a special creation, and that the existence of God is required to explain both monogenism and the spiritual component of human origins. No infallible declarations by the Pope or an Ecumenical Council have been made." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_evolution Mainline Protestants Protestant Christians from the so-called âmainlineâ or âliberalâ denominations support evolution at a rate of 51%, only slightly above the national average of 48%. This seems to suggest a more broad variety of views on the issue than would be expected based on many official denominational statements. http://www.ibcsr.org/index.php?opti...nd-accepting&catid=25:research-news&Itemid=59
Just another churchy way of saying, the Catholic Church has had to bring itself, albeit kicking and screaming for a century and a half, into admitting the theory of evolution is now no longer the devil's own work against all it's own previous protestations (is that word allowed in the same sentence with Catholic?) , but will still irrespectively, continue to misrepresent everything and anything about the theory of evolution as it has done since 1859, wherever and whenever it can, including inserting the word theistic where it doesn't belong, to promote its own contradictory irrational unfounded beliefs on the back of science, and proceed to deny anything evolution explains which the Church thinks may question its dogma, or which it can distort to form more of it's own ludicrous pronouncements. Amen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider I watched an interesting program yesterday evening about the Large Hadron Collider. It's too bad they can't get the thing working quite right, because I believe some serious questions will be answered if they can. Looks like we'll have to wait until 2013 to see if they can find the mysterious Higgs mechanism. What I found really interesting is the "Standard Model" used in providing the theory for the Big Bang after effect and the theory of General Relativity are not compatible. One provides theoretical explantion of the micro universe and general relativity works for the big picture of the universe, but both break down when interchanged. I also found it interesting that Einstiens theory of general relativity was very straight forward and the Standard Model is extremely complex. So much so that many scientists believe it flawed. Someday they'll find an answer to what happened, and how it happened the split second after the Big Bang. The bigger question is how/why did all that nothingness where there was no time, no space, no matter, suddenly, and without cause or purpose explode in to something. To simply dimiss that question as irrelevant is scientific heresy.